Today's Hot Stocks in Major News ( PVTB, FOLD, OCZ, USAT )

Los Angelas, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/12/2012 -- Shares of PrivateBancorp, I (NasdaqNM:PVTB) are trading at $16.87 and is +2.89% from its 50-day Moving Average price of $16.3969 and +9.57% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $15.3963. The average trading volume is 475931 shares and its market capitalization is $1.222B. Privatebancorp (NASDAQ:PVTB) certainly gave investors and traders a few things to mull over after the close on Wednesday. First, the bank holding company released third quarter earnings that beat the estimates of investment research analysts. Privatebancorp reported earning $0.27 per share compared to $0.10 during the same period in 2011 and a sequential increase of 8 cents from the previous quarter of this year. For the nine-month year-over-year comparison, the bank nearly doubled its earnings from $0.32 to $0.61 per share. The consensus among analysts expected third-quarter earnings to come in at $0.22 per share. Projections for the next quarter have the company earning $0.23 per share. In the conference call following the report, the bank noted that its lending has increased by $600 million so far this year while deposits and fee income continue to grow.

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Shares of Amicus Therapeuti (NGM:FOLD) are trading at $6.45 and is +23.88% from its 50-day Moving Average price of $5.2069 and +24.97% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $5.1613. The average trading volume is 312985 shares and its market capitalization is $318.2M. Amicus Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:FOLD) surged up 6.67% to $5.99 on a traded volume of 956k shares.- Amicus Therapeutics announced additional positive preliminary results from an ongoing Phase 2 open-label drug-drug interaction study to evaluate the safety and plasma pharmacokinetic effects of the pharmacological chaperone AT2220 co-administered with enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease.

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Shares of OCZ Technology Gr (NCM:OCZ) are trading at $1.86 and is -56.11% from its 50-day Moving Average price of $4.2374 and -64.67% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $5.2652. The average trading volume is 4941330 shares and its market capitalization is $125.8M. OCZ Technology Group Inc (NASDAQ:OCZ) is one of the top losers and the stock decreased 40.32% and closed at $1.88 on a traded volume of 23.20 million shares. The stock went down after postponing its second-quarter earnings filing and saying revenue for the period will be materially lower than previously forecast. The Company expects revenue will be materially lower s for the second quarter of 2013. This new revenue estimate and filing delay is principally due to the impact of customer incentive programs which were discovered subsequent to the preliminary announcement during the normal close process. However, analysts were expecting the Company to report revenue of $120 million for the second quarter of 2013.

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USA Technologies, (NGM:USAT) are trading at $1.51 and is +10.06% from its 50-day Moving Average price of $1.372 and +6.28% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $1.4207. The average trading volume is 162482 shares and its market capitalization is $49.4M. USA Technologies (NASDAQ: USAT), the San Diego, CA provider of wireless, cashless payment systems, rose 21.77% Thursday on 10 times average volume. In 8-K filing Wednesday, USA Technologies stated: On October 9, 2012, USA Technologies and Visa (NYSE: V), entered into a First Amendment to the agreement that had been previously entered into between them on October 12, 2011 Pursuant to the First Amendment, the original one-year term of the Agreement has been extended until October 31, 2013, and will automatically renew for an additional year, or until October 31, 2014, unless either party would provide at least 60-days prior notice of non-renewal.

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